A New Year’s Resolution awaiting fulfilment…
A bit of bush doggerel for a job I have to get done… I sit by the fountain on New Year’s Day; the bricks shimmer and shine in burning heat. Through the parched bowls the leaves swirl and sway; no...
View ArticleOh Yes … a New Year
Image by paloetic via Flickr I am aroused from my holiday stupour to be reminded that a New Year is waiting in the wings. One more country – Samoa – will see it first, having just yesterday moved...
View ArticleThree New Year Symbols
Nativity Wesley Uniting Church Perth Tree of Life Scarcely had the New Year started to roll across the world’s last continent than we on the first one were returning from a New Year’s Day service at...
View ArticleOn the eighth day of Christmas … a fresh start
Why is New Year’s Day so evocative of lists to improve and enhance our personal and communal living? Life is comprised of cycles, and somehow, deeply embedded in our collective psyche, a New Year...
View ArticleOn the eleventh day of Christmas … Auld Lang Syne
The gift of connection. The final days of Christmas coincide with New Year celebrations and reflections. As the calendar turns over to the new year, Robert Burn’s Auld Lang Syne rings out through the...
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